A good treat for tea would be apple jam with lemon. There are various options for how to cook this sweet treat. We offer several recipes.
Lemon Apple Jam: Cinnamon and Ginger Recipe
List of ingredients:
- sweet apples of hard varieties - about 1 kg;
- lemon (choose with a thick skin);
- granulated sugar - about 1 kg;
- cinnamon;
- ground dry ginger.
Cooking technology
How to cook apple jam with lemon? You need to start with the preparation of the syrup. Pour water into a container, put on a fire and pour sugar into it. While the syrup is boiling, prepare the apples. Wash and cut into slices. Remove the core. Cut the lemon into half slices. After the syrup has boiled, put the lemon in it, and after a few minutes, apples. Cook the fruit until cooked. Before removing the container from the heat, put a little cinnamon and ground ginger. Apple jam with lemon should be infused. Best of all to leave it until the morning. Then again bring to a boil and arrange in jars. This preparation will serve not only as an excellent treat for tea, but also as a filling for pies and rolls. Lovers of jam recommend wiping apples before cooking.
Apple jam with lemon and mint
You can make jam with this recipe with the following ingredients:
- sugar - about 400 grams;
- apples - about 1 kg;
- lemon (only juice is required);
- mint leaves (fresh or dried).
Cooking technology
Prepare the apples. They need to be peeled, seeds extracted and cut into cubes. Put apples in a pot or cooking bowl. Sprinkle with sugar and pour the juice of one lemon. If desired, chopped zest can be added to the jam. Put the pelvis on moderate heat, bring to a boil. Cook, periodically removing the foam, until thickened. You can bring the jam to a thicker state. Put dry and fresh mint leaves on the bottom of the cans. If you use fresh leaves, jam should not be stored for longer than one month. With dry leaves, you can close apple jam for the winter. Pour it into jars and set to cool.
Jam from apples and lemon “Marmalade slices”
This sweet treat is made from the following products:
- green apples (choose sour and hard varieties);
- sugar;
- thin-skinned lemon.
Proportions: per kilogram of apples you will need a kilogram of sugar and one lemon.
Cooking technology
Apples must be cut into pieces. Put them in a cooking container, pouring each layer with sugar. Put the apples on medium heat. Strain fruits, sugar should dissolve, and apples let juice. Make sure sugar does not burn. Stir the jam periodically. Bring it to a boil, then cook for another half hour. Cut the lemon in half, squeeze the juice, put the zest and pulp in the jam. As soon as the apple slices become almost transparent, turn off the heat, cover the container with a lid and leave it overnight. The next day, remove the lemon zest from the jam and boil it again. After cooling, pour the jam into sterilized jars and close the lids.